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Eating The IT Elephant - Book Review
Achieving Project success over the last 30 years has been difficult! Reports on various studies rele
Happy Birthday to our NHS
Our NHS is 60 years old today, and it is one of the shining examples of why we call it GREAT Britain
WaveMaker Review
There are a number of tools out there which aspire to make building Rich Internet A pplication s easie
iPhone book and objc blog...
I am constantly blown away that the cool winding and twisting of life... I am done the Core Animatio
Gen Y, Social Media, and the Enterprise
Generation Y includes those in the age range 13 to 31. This is the largest generation ever, even su
JavaOne - Hits and misses
This years JavaOne was a not to be missed event. Here are my views on how the conference has changed
Kaazing's Brian Albers to speak at Interop in Vegas
As a software guy it is always int eresting to attend a "hardwar e/network" conference such as Interop
How much test coverage do you need? - The Testivus Answer
Referring to "The Way of Testivus" entry: http://www .artima.co m/weblogs/ viewpost.j sp?thread= 203994
Eclipse Web Tools on Safari
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Eating The IT Elephant - Book Review
Achieving Project success over the last 30 years has been difficult! Reports on various studies released over the last 5 years state as little as 30% of complex projects succeed. Although this number is climbing, very large projects (300 – 500 man ye
Involving The Team In Bug Fixing Shares Knowledge
A large part of improving the quality of software is knowledge sharing (indeed it is one of the basic tenets of Lean). In most organizations when a bug is submitted it is usually delegated to the developer who wrote the original code.  Paul Pagel’s
The Misnomer of Best Practices
One evening after sessions at the Better Software Conference, Dan North and I got into a discussion regarding the phrase ‘Best Practices’ and concluded that this term was actually a misnomer. Let’s take a non-software analogy; wearing a seat belt in
Glitch Watch - Gate change at ATL
So I was coming back from Atlanta yesterday and, as I arrived a bit early at the gate, settled in to read my RSS feeds. I picked a spot that was far enough away from the gate not to be too crowded, while at the same time allowing me to keep an eye o
The Dreyfus Model - Back In The Spotlight?
The Dreyfus Model shows the 5 stages of skill acquisition possible through experience of a subject. Created by Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus in 1980 while researching AI, the model was popularized by Dr Patricia Benner in the mid Eighties in her work on
Glitch Watch - Locked out by software glitch
Residents living in a city-owned apartment complex in Nottingham, England, were locked out of their homes on Tuesday of this week after a new security system was installed. Property manager Nottingham City Homes was installing security upgrades, inc
Glitch Watch - Verizon published 12,500 unlisted numbers
Verizon blamed a software glitch this week for the fact that it published approximately 12,500 unlisted phone numbers in a Washington County, MD phone directory. The company stated that it is taking steps to make amends to affected customers, anywhe
Is Java Dying? - No Way!
After reading several blogs and comments on the demise of Java, I felt compelled to post some interesting facts. Only a small percentage of developers go to conferences like JavaOne. These people constitute the majority of those who read, write and
Product Announcement
After much thought, we have decided that selling Java development tools is not a viable business model for us. Several recent events have helped us reach this conclusion: At JavaOne this year, free tools completely dominated the sessions. The exhibi
Glitch Watch - Incorrect debt ratings at Moodys
As if the financial world wasn’t in enough turmoil already, it has been revealed that programmers at debt rating company Moody’s made a “coding error” that overrated several debt products in early 2007. The products affected
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What Does the Future Hold for the Java Language?
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Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex 2 and Java
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NetBeans: It's Not Just for Java Anymore
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Creating a Pet Store Application with JavaServer Faces, Spring, and Hibernate
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Cover Story: What Is POJO Programming?
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What Does the Future Hold for the Java Language?
Before Java I was a Smalltalk guy. I remember switching from one language to the other and the tippi
White Paper: "Ensuring Code Quality in Multi-Threaded Applications"
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AccuRev and Rally Software Partner to Scale Agile Software Development Best Practices
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MyEclipse 6.5: The Maven Tipping Point for 1 Million Java Developers
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AccuRev Leverages Web 2.0 Technology to Extend Process Management Reach Across the Organization
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Is Open Source Good for the Java Developer?
Commercial open source software has arrived. There have been commercial sponsors of open source proj
NetBeans: It's Not Just for Java Anymore
Java developers have had a nice ride the last few years. With ferocious competition in the Java tool
AJAX and Enterprise RIA Tools - JSF, Flex, and JavaFX
2008 is going to be an important year for Rich Internet Applications. Most organizations are deliver
Infrastructure Virtualization Software to Support Sun Logical Domains
Scalent Systems announced support for Sun Logical Domains (LDoms) server virtualization and partitio
Savvion BusinessManager Turns Process Improvement Ideas Into Real-World SOA Solutions
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Sun Microsystems Unveils New Version of Java CAPS
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AdaCore Releases GNAT Ada-Java Interfacing Suite
AdaCore announced availability of the GNAT Ada-Java Interfacing Suite (GNAT-AJIS), which allows deve
Vega 3 Compute Appliance Raises the Bar for Java Performance
Azul Systems announced that its Vega 3 Compute Appliance recorded world record results in the indust
A Lightweight Approach to SOA and BPM in Java Using jBPM
SOA is mostly associated to technologies such as BPEL, SCA and Web Services. But does SOA really imp
JBoss Hits Amazon's EC2 Cloud
Red Hat is beta testing its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as a solution on Amazon's Elastic
Secrets Of The Masters: Core Java Job Interview Questions
If you are planning to hit the job market, you may need to refresh some of the Java basic terms and
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